| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Kingdom Coming ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Kingdom Coming
"Kingdom Coming", also known as "The Year of Jubilo", is an American Civil War song, written and composed by Henry C. Work in 1862, prior to the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
A pro-Unionist song, the song's lyrics are sung from the point of view of Confederate-owned slaves, who celebrate their impending freedom in the wake of their Confederate master having been frightened into running away by the approaching of Union military forces. They speculate on the fate of their absent owner, whom they opine will pretend to be a runaway slave in order to avoid capture by the Union military. With their owner absent, the slaves revolt, locking their overseer in a cellar as retribution for his harsh treatment towards them. The slaves then celebrate their impending emancipation by Union soldiers by drinking their absent owner's cider and wine in his kitchen.
Work also wrote the song "Babylon is Fallen" ("Don't you see the black clouds risin' ober yonder") which sees the American Civil War from the perspective of the black U.S. soldiers fighting for the Union.
==History==
Written in what Work perceived to be the dialect of southern slaves, the song's lyrics are rarely heard sung in recent years, with the tune usually played as a lively instrumental, as in the Ken Burns documentary, ''The Civil War''.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Kingdom Coming」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|